Dr. Erin Freund, assistant professor of music and harp instructor at Augustana, does more than just teach classes. She is a performer and arranger of music for harp. Dr. Freund will perform a harp recital of French repertoire with soprano Michelle Crouch (also on the faculty), at 8 p.m. Saturday in Wallenberg Hall.

When asked how she would make the world of the future better, Edita Salama, 11, built a dam to protect people from tsunamis. Edita, a student at Longfellow Liberal Arts School in Rock Island, made her project Tuesday during Augustana's Symposium Day. The Longfellow class was invited to create an object that would solve a problem.

Augustana's Dr. Heidi Storl will open this year's CommUniversity with the talk "Bio-medical Ethics: Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time" at 1 p.m. Feb. 1 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport. CommUniversity, a series of Sunday classes taught by area experts, will begin its 36th year in February.

Augustana students looking to make their mark on the world have another entry in the health field, a new major in public health that opens an array of career fields, while drawing on the college's strong tradition in the liberal arts and health sciences.

Augustana students received an Outstanding Delegation Award for their parrticipation in the 25th Model United Nations Conference last month in Chicago. Fifteen students from a variety of majors represented Augustana. Each student was responsible for researching specific policy topics. At the conference, they worked with delegations from other school to write resolutions.

Dr. Claire Kovacs, interim assistant museum director at the college's Teaching Museum of Art, works with 10 students as museum assistants, managing the 4,500-piece collection and installing exhibits. "It's a work-study job for them, but also a teaching opportunity for them," she said.